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Re: Pop OS – System76

#11

Post by 2Gkashmiri »

JeremyMorgan wrote: post #8

Pop is my new favorite. I started using it at the urging of friends, and love it. I've written a couple reviews of it on my blog, as it's been my "daily driver" for my laptop for nearly a year. I've been a Linux user since 1995/96, and a die hard Arch user for about 10 years. So why would I want a Linux distro that's super hands-off and easy to use? It's incredibly stable. "Set it and forget it". If I want a bleeding…

ive been wondering. if a new user is switching from windows, don't you think something like kde neon would have "less friction" UX wise ? i somewhat understand the appeal of pop os but gnome is wildly different from windows and i have seen people turn off.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#12

Post by toastercat »

Shared404 wrote: post #7

As far as I'm concerned, this is the current gold standard for out-of-box experience desktop Linux. There are things I would do differently if I were building a system myself, but PopOS "Just Works", and is more polished than Win10 imho.

Installed it on a Dell XPS13 recently. It's great except I have to restart GNOME every couple hours because of of annoying visual glitch that makes all text disappear.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#13

Post by johannes_ne »

toastercat wrote: post #12
Shared404 wrote: post #7

As far as I'm concerned, this is the current gold standard for out-of-box experience desktop Linux. There are things I would do differently if I were building a system myself, but PopOS "Just Works", and is more polished than Win10 imho.

Installed it on a Dell XPS13 recently. It's great except I have to restart GNOME every couple hours because of of annoying visual glitch that makes all text disappear.

Have you tried switching to Wayland?

Re: Pop OS – System76

#14

Post by beermonster »

I’ve never tried Pop!_OS but I hear such good things about it from people that have that’s it’s on my rainy day list of things to have a toy with. That and NixOS - but for very different reasons.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#15

Post by kitsunesoba »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #11
JeremyMorgan wrote: post #8

Pop is my new favorite. I started using it at the urging of friends, and love it. I've written a couple reviews of it on my blog, as it's been my "daily driver" for my laptop for nearly a year. I've been a Linux user since 1995/96, and a die hard Arch user for about 10 years. So why would I want a Linux distro that's super hands-off and easy to use? It's incredibly stable. "Set it and forget it". If I want a bleeding…

ive been wondering. if a new user is switching from windows, don't you think something like kde neon would have "less friction" UX wise ? i somewhat understand the appeal of pop os but gnome is wildly different from windows and i have seen people turn off.

KDE is certainly closer to Windows than GNOME is, but in my opinion only enough that longtime Windows users would likely find it sitting an uncanny valley of Windows-ness, at least with all the default configurations (which most new users would be using) I've seen.

In practice I've found that Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE configured similarly to how they are by default on Linux Mint to operate more like Windows than KDE does.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#16

Post by d_tr »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

This tiling feature looks just like i3 or Sway.. pretty sure it is using it under the hood. Not sure why they changed the default shortcuts though, nor why they want to rename everything under the Pop OS brand.. rather than just give credit to the real contributors.

It's written in TypeScript...

Re: Pop OS – System76

#17

Post by hsn915 »

johannes_ne wrote: post #13
toastercat wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Installed it on a Dell XPS13 recently. It's great except I have to restart GNOME every couple hours because of of annoying visual glitch that makes all text disappear.

Have you tried switching to Wayland?

How can people be having this kind of conversation while also claiming this is the state of the art or the gold standard in 2021?

I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. That's over 10 years ago.

Of course, OS X is older than that, and as far as I can tell, it never had such issues.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#18

Post by sumthinprofound »

Writing this on my 12 year old HP Pavilion 23 all-in-one running Pop as a bedside device for streaming video and audio books. It's smooth and responsive even with multiple videos running and flipping between browser tabs.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#19

Post by Glyptodon »

hsn915 wrote: post #17
johannes_ne wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried switching to Wayland?

How can people be having this kind of conversation while also claiming this is the state of the art or the gold standard in 2021? I've been running macos since 2012 and never had such issues. That's over 10 years ago. Of course, OS X is older than that, and as far as I can tell, it never had such issues.

My brother's hackintosh had ballparkish issues compared to an OEM Mac, not sure it's really that different.

Re: Pop OS – System76

#20

Post by k1rcher »

toastercat wrote: post #12
Shared404 wrote: post #7

As far as I'm concerned, this is the current gold standard for out-of-box experience desktop Linux. There are things I would do differently if I were building a system myself, but PopOS "Just Works", and is more polished than Win10 imho.

Installed it on a Dell XPS13 recently. It's great except I have to restart GNOME every couple hours because of of annoying visual glitch that makes all text disappear.

If you’re on an Intel CPU Linux loves screen tearing. Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf And add this:

Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection

Might fix your issues.

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